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Back to SearchStevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Episode 167
What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the …
3 years, 9 months ago
Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Episode 42
"The dominatrix is the id of American femininity. She says the words that we all wish we could say when we find ourselves frozen in the presence of m…
3 years, 9 months ago
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
Episode 131
In Nocturnal Admissions: Behind the Scenes at Tunnel, Limelight, Avalon, and Other Legendary Nightclubs (Santa Monica Press, 2022), nightclub directo…
3 years, 9 months ago
David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)
Episode 112
To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022) is a particularly vivid biography of a remarka…
3 years, 9 months ago
David Crow, "The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story" (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019)
Episode 221
A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival.
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Joanne Watson, "Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Episode 220
Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920 (Grosvenor House, 2022) is the story of the glamorous French Empress who escaped from a vengeful mob i…
3 years, 9 months ago
R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)
Episode 158
R.B. More (1903–1972) was a leader in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s movement, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). More’s …
3 years, 9 months ago
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
Episode 126
Hannah Arendt said that she had one life-long “best friend.” That was Rachel Varnhagen, a Jewish woman who lived in Enlightenment-era Berlin around 1…
3 years, 9 months ago
Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 244
Liz Bucar is the Director of Sacred Writes, Professor of Religion, and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University. Bucar is an expert in com…
3 years, 9 months ago
Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
Episode 37
We look at the mind behind Russia’s imperial vision, Aleksandr Dugin. Political theorist Matt McManus walks us through this far-right thinker’s stran…
3 years, 9 months ago